What's on the Kittens' playlists?

[dulcinea]

heh - don't even get me started on Toad the Wet Sprocket. Just let me say, if someone has met me, the one thing they will usually know is my love for TTWS (and "dulcinea" was the title of their 4th album...)



Glen was the lead singer - the music is kinda different, now he doesn't have the band backing him up. lyrically, it is very similar, musically it is a bit simpler, as he tends to tour now just on his own, him and his guitar. his solo CD is pretty good - it's not Toad of course, but it's not too bad. if you're interested, drop me a line, I've got a couple of spare copies lying around looking for a good home(okay, so I had to have the first release, a signed one and the DVD. I'm a sick, sick woman)

Somebody told me that this is the place, where everything's better, everythings safe
- walk on the ocean by Toad the wet sprocket

[Webberific]

I've been afraid to post in here, because I'm pretty sure I'd never be able to stop posting... I'll try to restrain myself.



Some of the stuff I've been listening to lately:



David Gray. Lots and lots of David Gray.

Son Volt.

Steve Earle.

Beatles.

Emmylou Harris.

Gillian Welch.

John Coltrane.

Miles Davis.

Neil Halstead.

Norah Jones.

Alison Krauss.

Pete Yorn.

Coldplay.

Nick Drake.

Chopin.



I'll stop there for now.



BTW you folks all have good taste in music.

[Killin Joke]

Ah, kindred spirits... luvly Thanks for being in awe /chuckle/ I am too, you know. Thank you all so much for the valuable tips. Busy making this mental list: kitten suggestions

- Sophie B Hawkins got mentioned in the Beyond the city limits thread

- Jeff Buckley I want to listen to for like an eternity: one, Amber likes him, so that's a given, two: kitties seem to like him, probably due to one, and three: I've heard of him before: such a name: bound to come across him sooner or later

- Lucy Kaplansky: like I typed, had her CD in my hands, wondering if she was any good, and tadaa: kitten motivation

- Glen Phillips: now, I'm intrigued

- Pete Yorn: ok, so that's one a Xenite friend of mine pushed me to listen to, because it's a favourite of a certain Xena actor (excellent taste the guy has)

Keep 'm coming, guys !

"Visions dance throughout the night in the pale moon light in the witching hour" (Symphony X)

[dulcinea]

Jeff Buckley - I'd suggest listening to "Grace". It's a good album. I got it after hearing Natalie Merchant covering his song "last goodbye" - that is such a great song..aargh..I'm going to have to go and find that CD, and sheryl crow live before I go to work!!



this is such a great thread - so many suggestions that I'm going to be at the CD store for hours looking for all of them!

Somebody told me that this is the place, where everything's better, everythings safe
- walk on the ocean by Toad the wet sprocket

[Jennifer]

I cant remember, did I mention Azure Ray on my list a few pages back? I got hooked on them when I heard the song "Displaced" during Seeing Red. It plays during the scene when Xander's walking through town, and sees Anya in the magic shop. It finishes on the next scene where Willow and Tara are in bed doing 'research'. Everyone, go listen to it. Its the greatest song, and they're the greatest band. Unfortuantely, they're really hard to find.

Willow made a small fist and waved it at her (Tara), and the two grinned in that secret knowing way lovers ever did. It amazed him now, looking back upon it, that he had not realized sooner that Willow and Tara were more than merely friends. -Giles, "The Wisdom of War" My Journal

Edited by: Jennifer  at: 10/1/02 1:35:43 pm

[mz zapruder]

killin joke, hey, good to know there is someone else who likes marilyn manson.

think i gave the wrong impression when i said i was obsessed with him, i am, but not in the 'o my god i fancy the arse of him'. i just reckon he's pretty cool and i'd absolutely die if i got to see him in concert.(you probably think i'm kinda out there now!!!!!!!)



i do however think amber is absolutely drop dead gorgeous.(i'm all for the girl/girl action, even though there is a lack of it in my corner right now.)



was listening to follow the leader today and i reckon the best track to get the blood pumpin' has to be 'got the life'. it puts me hyper every time i listen to it(ok, so now you definately think i'm not all there!)

[Killin Joke]

/makes mental notes/ Jeff's Grace, Nat's cover Last goodbye (have I got that one ? Is it on Tigerlily or the live CD ?) Thanks, Dulcinea.

Azure Ray's Displaced: thank you too, Jen. Buffy always has the coolest music. I mean: they even had a quote with "soft Sarah McLachlan love" in it, and used several songs of her.

Mz zapruder, so you'd absolutely die if you got to see him in concert, huh. Yeah, you would. Funny thing to type. I saw him on Werchter once. He came on stage, with a bare chest, with the word "Die !" on it, in red letters. He kept yelling stuff at the audience, like "I luv you motherfuckers in the front, and I hate you motherfuckers in the back." Peculiar man, that one...

And no, you're not out there, you're right here. Hey, I'm a die-hard Xenite, I know what I'm talking about

About Amber being drop-dead gorguous: no arguments there, lack of girl on girl action: check

Korn: I like some of their video clips, like the one with the girl that's being abused by her (step)father, but she manages to escape with the rest of the neighbourhood kids in the end.

Or their recent one, about the boy being mocked at school, having his Carrie-like revenge in the end. It's good to stand up for people who have it tough.

"Visions dance throughout the night in the pale moon light in the witching hour" (Symphony X)

Edited by: Killin Joke at: 10/4/02 1:18:00 pm

[rezeaka]

in zee playlist/cd player for me lately are:



Howie Day - Australia

(I seriously recommend this CD to anybody that likes Radiohead or Jeff Buckley...I've been listening to this cd 24/7 when I'm in my new jeep lately...there's not a song on the CD that I don't like...now that my friends..is rare. ...Howie's got a total Thom Yorke falsetto thing going with his voice too...gotta love the falsetto thang!)



Jason Spooner - this is a guy I work with...he let me preview his new CD (title yet to be shared) that should be out in a couple of weeks...he's from Portland, Maine...very acoustic/folk style...he sounds like Paul Simon vocally...but musically not so much...very good player/singer/songwriter...and not a bad web designer either. I really like his song No Fantasy....A LOT!



Patti Griffin - Flaming Red



BTVS - Once More With Feeling



Jera - some demos...it's my brother's band...their new CD should be out sometime before the end of this year (hopefully!)...How Would It Be is my favorite of the two they're sampling on their site atm...



Jeff Buckley - Grace...just got it (finally!) for my birthday!



Jonatha Brooke - Live



anyway...that's my rotation lately....gotta run to hoops now!



take care!

-annie



edited 'cause apparently I fudged a link to my bro's band... ...HOPEFULLY i got it right this time! ;P

Edited by: rezeaka at: 10/1/02 2:39:05 pm

[Still Waters Run Deep]

Aha, nice to see tjhois thread re-invigorated.



This week O'i hov mainly been listening to Norah Jones and Kathryn Williams, with a little Nick Drake and Chris Isaak for good measure.

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love and kisses


Still Waters



..... she wears secrets in her hair........

[Mystikk]

@Killin Joke:

Woah, somebody else who listens to Crematory?

"Tears of Time" is a nice song, but I prefer "The Fallen" and "Fly" - and, of course, their "Temple of Love" cover version...



(I saw them live several times and even attended their very last farewell concert on September 30th, 2001...)

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[Killin Joke]

Hmm, Chris Isaak's Blue hotel... Although the man in question might not be that cool: saw this scene of him wanting to kiss Cameron Diaz during their speech on the MTV music/movie awards or something, and she made it perfectly clear she wouldn't have any of it. Of course that doesn't mean he hasn't got a couple of nice songs.



Yeah, Mystikk, I'm a freak. I can't claim Crematory to be my favourite metal band, but I do have 4 CDs of 'm: granted -> copies. Nothing beats Sisters of mercy's Temple of love, but Crematory does a good attempt at performing a wicked sounding song. I noticed there's still a lot of their stuff I need to check out in our library (and no: in my case, that's not an excuse to team up with some cute witch... if you're wondering )

"Visions dance throughout the night in the pale moon light in the witching hour" (Symphony X)

[slowontheuptake]

mz zapruder I have indeed seen Mr. Manson in concert. It was my third year attending ozzfest and his first apperance on the tour. It was funny to see the wildly different crowd he brought with him. He came on second to last at the end of an exausting 95% day. I had recently dropped of exaustion on a grassy overlook to watch from afar but halfway through his first song I ended up wading back through the croud to the mosh. He is a kickass performer! I was dead on my feet by that point.( I wont get into my traditional hellish Ozzfest luck that left me and two others walking 17 miles on a highway after two straight days of no sleep and moshing, not pretty)

Fun pointless fact> Aly Hannigan dated Manson's drummer for a while.

[Arafel the Witch]

yesterday's music:

Led Zeppelin: The Song Remains the Same

Tori Amos: Live from Venus



Today's Music:

Kevin Burke: If the Cap Fits

Ashley MacIsaac: Hi, How Are You Today?



Wake up music (CD alarm)

William Coulter: Celtic Connection



Tomorrow?

[twink]

rt now i'm carting around my omwf cd, a conglomeration (sp) of indigo girls, kd lang, & melissa etheridge, along w/ alanis morissette: jagged little pill--for those really bad days at work, & enya: a day w/o rain. that's the top picks for this wk's work music.

"You know what's weird?"--W
"Japanese commercials are weird."--T

[dulcinea]

Quote:

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Nat's cover Last goodbye (have I got that one ? Is it on Tigerlily or the live CD ?)

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it hasn't been commercially release - I've got an mp3 of it, and also on an audience taped CD of one of her 1998 concerts. I do a bit of trading of live concerts when I have the time.



twink - the jagged little pill CD used to be my flatmates warning to avoid me! every time I was having a crappy day, I'd put it in, and play it loud - those songs are such great stress relievers...

Somebody told me that this is the place, where everything's better, everythings safe
- walk on the ocean by Toad the wet sprocket

[lelak]

Counting down till Genevieve Maynard's "Ghost Notes" album comes out. It's gonna be soooooooo good!



(edited 'cuz I'm a dimwit who tried to use HTML and emoticons in the same post)

Edited by: lelak at: 10/2/02 12:36:21 am

[Indygo]

Ohhh Genevieve... ME TOO! Waiting... waiting... I don't know if any international kittens would be able to find the album, but all Australian kittens should check her out, absolutely.



Indygo

[mollyig]

Killin Joke You asked about Lucy Kaplansky. Yes she's a singer songwriter. She has some really sad songs - she kept joking at the concert that thats why she loved the Irish, because we appreciate angsty songs.



Its obvious that she adores music too, because she loves doing cover versions, and variations of old standards. The concert consisted of just her and an acoustic guitar, and the the audience was mightily entertained. To me thats the definition of true talent.



Today's listening pleasure is a playlist of Nina Simone songs, because I'm going to see her on 4 November - yay!

*Oh Sinnerman, where you gonna run to?*

Adding up the total of a love that's true, multiply life by the power of two
Indigo Girls

[Killin Joke]

Thanks for the info, Dulcinea and Mollyig Sounds like my kinda music alright: still pure, honest...

"Visions dance throughout the night in the pale moon light in the witching hour" (Symphony X)

[Kieli]

I see someone mentioned Toad the Wet Sprocket....I've got everything they've ever recorded but I did not know that Glen Phillips and TtWS had parted ways. Kind of a shame really.

I've got a ton of CDs but, you know, I'm old fashioned and tend to have an entire group of CDs from the same person



Let's see, along with my latest Jonatha Brooke fascination, I've got Nickel Creek's newest, I totally adore Jill Phillips, total Maria McKee freak, and have some Garbage, some Danzig, some The Cure and Morrissey (gotta love the Moz), the Smiths, Erasure, a TON of techno (DJ Skibble and his mixes are my current faves along with any Ministry of Sound mixes...it's the only Internet UK radio station that I've got set constantly), plus Terry Clark, Martina McBride, Melissa Etheridge, Tori Amos, Sarah McLachlan, Jennifer Holliday, Bette Midler (I go for Divas...what can I say? ), Margaret Becker (KILLER voice), Chris Isaak, Donald Fagan, Steely Dan, David Sanborn, BB King, Spyro Gyra, Bob James, George Benson/Earl Klugh, The Rippingtons, Rush (they are the precursors to all of this stuff....all rock bands owe these guys BIG!), David Meece, Michael W. Smith, Steven Curtis Chapman, the Chieftains, Enya, Maire Brennan, Clannad and a few Afro-Celtic mixes.....etc, etc, etc. I'd fill up half the bloody page!



Did I mention that I have FAR too many CDs for words???



And Joke, think I might be emailing you, toots. It's been too long since we've talked anyways.



[edited to add: Yay! Happy to see that others liked Faster Pussycat, Metallica, No Doubt, Leahy, Alison Krauss, Dixie Chicks, and Pam Tillis.......adding to the list the Cherry Poppin' Daddies, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, the Brian Setzer Orchestra, anything by Glen Miller, Gene Krupa, the Dorsey Brothers, Sarah Vaughn, Nina Simone and Billie Holiday as well as Charlie Parker and Thelonius Monk. There is a REASON why I have 500 CDs. I can't make up my mind!! )

Love is tricky. It is never mundane or daily. You can never get used to it. You have to walk with it, then let it walk with you. You can never balk. It moves you like the tide. It takes you out to sea then lays you on the beach again. Today's struggling pain is the foundation for a certain stride through the heavens. You can run from it but you can never say no. It includes everyone."--Amy Tan "The Hundred Secret Senses"

Edited by: Kieli at: 10/2/02 8:05:44 am

[mollyig]

Have to disagree with you Kieli my dear but there's no such thing as too many CDs!

Adding up the total of a love that's true, multiply life by the power of two
Indigo Girls

[Mrs Vertigo]

I think I just lost my Lesbian Membership Card for good. I don’t even know who the Indigo Girls are. Well, I’ve heard the name but, seriously, don’t know a thing more. And only last week I found out who Melissa Erthridge is.



Oh for christ’s sake, I don’t even own a single flannel shirt! now it's clear. I’m so straight. *sigh* guess I should turn in my badge and start mooning over, err, umm… uh… help me out here gals, my boy cute-o-meter is a bit rusty.

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Joss: “And what if I kill you?”
Tara: “Trust me; won’t help.”

[Kieli]

Ok, Molls...I guess I should've known you're response to that since you are the woman who emailed me her ENTIRE music list that took close to ten pages

Love is tricky. It is never mundane or daily. You can never get used to it. You have to walk with it, then let it walk with you. You can never balk. It moves you like the tide. It takes you out to sea then lays you on the beach again. Today's struggling pain is the foundation for a certain stride through the heavens. You can run from it but you can never say no. It includes everyone."--Amy Tan "The Hundred Secret Senses"

[Ben Varkentine]

All this talk about Lesbian Membership Cards and the Indigo Girls and such reminds of the the time my mother was talking to a co-worker about their respective musical tastes. At one point the co-worker mentioned Pet Shop Boys, and my mother said, "Oh, my son is quite is quite a big Pet Shop Boys fan."



Without missing a beat, the co-worker replied, "Really? Is he gay?"

Ben Varkentine

"You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think."--Dorothy Parker

[mz zapruder]

killin joke

much and all as i would like to have the chance to be shocked or even die if i got to see him in concert, unfortunately it's unlikely to happen. the only time he was in ireland was when the mtv europe awards were held in dublin a few years ago. (when he preformed he was completely naked and he was covered in black paint from head to foot!!)



glad to hear you don't think i'm insane!



and yeah, it's good to stand up for people who have it tough. some of the stuff that happens in families and in life is pretty crappy.



you can sooo never have too many c.ds. music rules.



slowontheuptake, i take it ozzfest would be well worth going to. it sounds like mental criac! i'd go just to see him, i guess you gathered that already.

on the bad luck at festivals, i've been there. i went to a 2 day festival last year, it rained most of the time and because it was held in a massive field, we ended up being in muck up to our knees, needless to say that by the end of the day we were covered in it( but then again so was everyone else so i didn't feel so bad!) it was worth it though, i'm sure you think ozzfest was too, despite having the legs walked of you!!



to all the kitties who like jeff buckley, pete yorn and david gray, i recommend david kitt - the big romance. it's an excellent cd, well worth listening to( i promise )

Edited by: mz zapruder at: 10/2/02 11:52:20 am

[mollyig]

Kieli Was it really 10 pages? Yikes! Ah well, its still not enough!



mz zapruder Is this another Irish Kitty I spy? Hiya!



I'm listening to Afro Celt Sound System at the moment. Love the African percussion teamed with the Irish medleys. Great stuff!

Adding up the total of a love that's true, multiply life by the power of two
Indigo Girls

[slowontheuptake]

mz zapruder I wouldn't recomend ozzfest unless you're a glutton for punishment. There are great bands like Rob Zombie, Primus, and System of a Down that are worth showing up for. You can also stick around for Ozzy although that's both sad and amusing.

On the other hand there are nu metal bands that have no buisness on the list. i remember being shoved up agianst the barrier and nearly falling asleep standing when Linken Park did thier set. They suck beyond the telling of it.

On topic? the top five CDs in my pile right now

Perfect Circle

Animal House soundtrack

Monster Magnet

Gorillaz

Propellerheads

[mz zapruder]

slowontheuptake- the propellerheads are pretty good, i don't actually own any of their cds but i borrow them of my friends when i'm in the mood to listen to them. falling asleep when linkin park were playing, wow!! not a good sign!!





mollyig- hi, yeah i'm irish, i'm from donegal. i have on occasion listened to afro celt sound system. if you're into the african beat thing then you should give leftfield a go, the album leftism has plenty of it. it's one of my faves.

[Killin Joke]

Yay: home sweet home ! For the weekend, anyway (-> precious internet connection)

/blush/ Thanks, Toni. Take your time, hon While I was reading about your African rhythms, my Afro Celt Sound System tape sprang to mind, et voila: Mollyig mentioned them. I saw them on this summer festival once, and danced my ass off: amazing music indeed, mixing different cultural traditions.

Mz Zapruder, so you're from Ireland too, like Mollyig ? May I just say: I LOVE your country ! Went on this backpacking trip in July (10 days) and had a great time ! Sorry to read your musical options are a bit limited, though. We rode past a castle where U2 had appeared for this concert.

Probably going to see Doro in concert in November. I only have one CD of her (cool Billy Idol cover: White Wedding), but she's this big rock/metal lady in the bizz. Have to get my hands on her new CD though.

Slowontheuptake, I saw Monster Magnet live once (again: summer festival: mega music experience at once, huh). Funny I found out a song in the Xena ep Lyre, lyre, hearts on fire, was a cover of them.

"Visions dance throughout the night in the pale moon light in the witching hour" (Symphony X)

[jaycatt23]

recently moved to another country, with only my battered and not very good walkman (it uses tapes! imagine! no cds for this girl) for company.

so I brought with me, and I love

PJ Harvey - Rid of Me, and stories from the city, stories from the sea

White Stripes

Strokes 'fell in love with a girl' (chuckle)

Jeff Buckley

Belle and Sebastian - the recent John Peel session

Green Day

Radio Head - Pablo Honey



But I'm missing, very much

Belle and Sebastian - Tigermilk (a record of genius), Storytelling, heck, everything, albums and eps.

Mogwai - SERIOUSLY, now, if you haven't heard 'New Paths to Helicon Part 1' you are missing out on much. despite the (slightly) pretentious name, a tune of much class and genius.

Roots Manuva

Roni Size

Beth Orton

Looper

Happy Mondays

Stone Roses



and much more. Sigh. Must acquire more music.